It's the kind of question that gets the conversation flowing at a dinner party — what would you eat for your last meal? Most of us will never have the opportunity to plan our final feast, but Lawrence Russell Brewer did.

The Texas inmate, who was convicted for the murder of James Byrd Jr. in 1988, requested quite the spread before his 2011 execution. Brewer ordered a triple bacon cheeseburger, two chicken fried steaks drenched in gravy with onions, three fajitas, a cheese omelet, a large helping of fried okra, a pound of barbecue meat with a half loaf of white bread, a pint of ice cream, three root beers, and a peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts.

The stunt ended the tradition of allowing inmates facing execution in Texas to select their last meal. Although the practice is still in effect in other states, price and availability restrictions have become more common.

But before recent limitations, the requests were vast, varied, and occasionally pretty strange. While some went for broke, others settled for simpler fare. INSIDER rounded up some of the revealing culinary choices of serial killers facing execution.

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John Wayne Gacy ate KFC.

John Wayne Gacy
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In May 1994, Gacy was convicted of and put to death by lethal injection for the murder of 33 boys and young men. He buried the victims under his home in Illinois.

Bundy chose to forgo his last meal before his 1989 execution. He was still given the usual Florida death row meal of steak, eggs, hash browns, toast with butter, jelly, juice, coffee, and milk. He refused it.

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Stephen Wayne Anderson wanted grilled cheese and cottage cheese.

Stephen Wayne Anderson
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Stephen Wayne Anderson escaped from Utah State Prison and broke into the home of 81-year-old Elizabeth Lyman. He fatally shot her and then prepared a meal in her home. Police were called and he confessed to the murder. He was charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of residential burglary and sentenced to death.

John Martin Scripps had pizza and hot chocolate.

John Martin Scripps
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Scripps was an English serial killer who was believed to have murdered six people in multiple countries, earning him the nickname " tourist from hell." One of his three confirmed victims was killed in Singapore and another two in Thailand. The others are thought to have been killed in Belize, Mexico, and the United States. Scripps allegedly used the butchering skills he gained from a previous prison to cut up the victims.